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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS
(LOTS 24-83)

81 UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)

Goldfish, Killifish, Stingray and
Puffer Fish

Woodblock print, two vertical chutanzaku on
an uncut oban sheet, signed Chooro Kuniyoshi
ga and Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, published by
Tsujiokaya Bunsuke (Kinshodo), circa 1837
Vertical oban: 15º x 10º in. (38.7 x 26 cm.)

$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE:
Raymond A. Bidwell (1876-1954), Springfield,
Massachusetts

EXHIBITED:
“Ukiyo-e from The Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield,
MA”, exh. cat. p. 114, no. 77, exhibited at the following
venues:
Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, 4 June-3 July, 1994
Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo
Prefecture, 16 July-21 August, 1994
Yokkaichi Municipal Museum, Mie Prefecture, 1 September-4
October, 1994
“Utagawa Kuniyoshi”, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts,
Springfield, Massachusetts, 1980, exh. cat. pl. 63-64
“Exhibition of Ukiyo-e by Utagawa Kuniyoshi”, Riccar
Art Museum, Tokyo, 23 November-24 December, 1978,
exh. cat. pl. 217-218

LITERATURE:
The Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Prints by Utagawa
Kuniyoshi (Massachusetts: The Raymond A. Bidwell and
Bertha U. Bidwell Fund, 1968), pl. 47.